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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1904)
6 THE MORNING AS TORI AN, ASTOhIA, OREGON. PROOFESSIONAL CARDS, FREDERICK V. MOHN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office and residence, over Peterson A Brown's. Office hour: to U:S0 a, m. and I to 4:30 p. m.; evening. ( to t. Sundays By Appointment. DR. J. A. REGAN Dentist. Office over A. V. Allen's Store, Office hours, t to 11 and 1 to 5. jay tuttle; m. d. PHISIC1AN AND SURGEON acting Assistant 3argeoa C.S. Marias Hospital Service. Office hours: 10 to IS sm. 1 to 4: SO pan. 477 Commercial Street. Snd Floor. Dr. RHODA C. IIICKS OSTEOPATHIST If aasell Bids. 871 Commerelal 8t PHONK BLACK 3085. C W. BARR, D. D. 8. Has Opened Dental Parlors In Rooms 17-818, The Dekum. PORTLAND, OREGON. Where he will be pleased to meet Friends and Patrons. Dr. VAUGHAN, Dentist Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon. Dr. T. L. BALL DENTIST 124 Commercial street. Astoria Ore. Htatnrr of le rtve Mlaatea" Bait. There Is a history attached to tho tollliiji of a ninth Ml after a peal which Is iut generally kuown. lVpti larly It Is derlled aa the "five min utes" bell, and It la thought to Ive filial warnlmt ' the leiple that If they do not really hurry up at the end they will be late. A a matter of fact. It has a far outer watery, tu earner uays it was not customary to have sermons so frequently as la now the case, Ou spe- clal occasions au Instruction was given or a senium waa preached, and on these special occasions the little bell waa tolled after the pal In order that the faithful tulKht understand that It was one of the Sveclal ocvasloua ou which the clergy would address their Bocks. London (ilobe. Wants Without Rfcy. Bulb has uo rhyme. Culm, cusp, re- cunib, gulf, month, doth, amongst, are other rhymeless words having the sound of u as In but. Pew patrician words In the language hare tbls Towel sound, so commonplace and without dignity; hence poets turn to It only for blood, Hood and a few similar tur bulent tnonoeyllablea. They use It often, however. In forcing the accent from the, autepenultlinate syllable to the final, where Its unpleasant sound Is concealed by the softened stress. That has many rhymes, such as felicitous, mysterious, inglorious, etc. London Chronicle. A Pleaaaat Pr pae. He Here ia good news for women. A high medical authority says that the little toe will gradually disappear. She Why Is tnat good tor women? He- Why, If the little toe disappears, why not the others? And If they all dis appear women will be able to wear smaller shoes. Brooklyn Life. For Love of The Major By HENRY COLGATE OtapiffW, I. b A", it. K-MJtJMkt Dr. W. C. LOGAN DENTIST 678 Commercial St., Shanahsn Building MISCELLANEOUS. C. J. TRENCHARD Insurance, Commission and Shipping CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent Weils-Fargo and Northern Pacific Express Companies. Cor. ELEVENTH and BOND 8T8. AKLUULEN, Merchant Tailor. Occident Building. JAPANESE GOODS TakUft- HIm "Dow. "Tea," said the pompous man, "we more In the best society when we're at home.' "Yes," replied the man with the cold gray eye. "I bare some friends In that business too. Do yon use the padded vans!" Exchange. Keep the i stomach strong i snd healthy by 1 using me Kit ten ana yon have the secret ,A of health and I'pK strength. Theie . is nothing else jk "V 'j urar w guuu. J I r i. always cures. hf(.i Inditotloe, Wak Kidneys, Dytpcpsia, Chilis, Colds or Malaria. Try iL K .STOMACH " Bitters a 000000000f HANDKERCHIEF CARNIVAL, O A large shipmsnt of Japsnese laiti.LJ .III, k. 1...4 - -"." j" n I w I a a i . r . vi W i g. miiyig inwn ine vinoru. i nay j. New Stock Of fancy goods just O ' the latest Oriental da- q n tsi Myiia wm laamwne. vu will w arrived at Yokohama Bazaar. 0 want some for xmas, if you m. O Call and see the latest novelties them. l .1 w KwnNft rn O from Japan. 8 420 Commercial 8treet. O00000000( BEST 15 CENT MEAL. You can always find the best 15-cent meal in the city at the Rising Sun Restaurant 612 Commercial St. FIRST-CLASS MEAL for 15c; nice cake, coffee,' pie, or doughnuts, 5c, at U. S, Restaur ant. 434 Bond St WOOD! WOOD! WOOD Cord wood, mill wood, box wood, any kind of wood at lowest prices, Kelly, the transfer man. . 'Phone 2211 Blaok, Barn on Twelfth, opposite opera house. When yon buy canned clams ask for RAZOR BRAND Clean and wholesome and a home product. For sale by all leading grocers. Warrention Clam Com pany, Warrenton, Or. PARKER HOUSE H. B. PARKER, Proprietor Major Davis, paytmtater, with head quarters at Fort Uredy, waa eating his mpper at Sau ueiuo ranch, presided over by Apache Joe, one of the aleek eat, slickest Mexicans In all the west The sergeaut and the troopers of his eaeort were frying their bacon t a camptlre out:4de. While Joae, w waited on the otllcw. waa away after the wine the major received a sudden shock. The handsomest Mexican girl he bad ever seen softly entered the room, a finger on her lips, and whis pered: "Don't drink the wine, senor. It will be poisoned! Don't sleep In the bouse tonight They come to rob and mur der your She was gone before the son of Mara could reach out and grasp her sleeve or utter a word In reply. He had stopped at the ranch several times be fore and knew that the girt waa re cent arrival. Jose was back with the wine a minute after the girl has dis appeared, but the officer waved blm away, saying; "It la kind of you. Jose, but not to night In the morning, perhaps, you may ask me to take a bottle along to Fort Reno and bar the colonel sam ple it with me." At 10 o'clock the major made excuse tliat be would rather aleep in bis am bulance, which was provided with a rot, and at 11 all was quiet within and without tbe ranch. Within, however, the Mexican stood at one of the rear windows peering out Into the darkneaa. waiting. Without, while all the escort except a single sentinel appeared to be sound asleep, every man's eyes were wide open and hla carbine rested by bis side. At midnight to the minute Jose light ed the candle and passed It back and forth across the window a dozen times. Then, taking hla revolver from a shelf, he softly quit tbe bouse, and after a walk of 300 feet he stood before six men crouched behind a giant cactus. 'They sre asleep, the pigs," he whis pered, "and It will need only ono shot apiece to do for them. Comer Five minutes later seveu border out laws crept down to within ten feet of the sleeping men. Tbe sentinel stood as one In a daze. Tbe outlaws crept another foot and the man on guard suddenly wheeled, firing his musket with deadly effect Ella recumbent comrades sprang to their foot and pour ed In a volley which dropped three ruf Sana. The rest (led Into tho darkness with the fieetness of shadows, and It was hardly a minute later when the rated, hut she shrouded herself In mys tery, and lie did not seek to break down her reserve. He expressed bt deep gratitude mid rode away, but an he galloped back to Fort HrAdy he was uiKiiinfortably coixoUma that the girl admired him. Ilia wife had gone east, and he was not the man to enter Into n flirtation lu her absence. Once more he saw Feplta at the ranch as he rode on oltlclal busl iicmh, and once she waa found lingering arouiul the fort aa If to get teccli wltli some one. Ooaalp Qlled In all the rent. It was a lonely, out of the world post, and there had to be goaaip about soiuo one or something. The major vwns guyed by his brother olllcers about the girl, and he knew that the rnuk and llle were talking, but he went his way and said nothing. They would not know that he had offered to send the girl east where his wife or his mother might provide for her. Then one autumn night, wheu the goaaip was at Its height, the seutluel at the gate suddenly called for the corpo ral or the guard. It was dark and gusty, with falls of ralu at Intervale, but ho had caught sight of a figure skulking about The conioral made a dash through the darkness and laid hla hands on a human being on a woman! It was replta! Near at baud was tbe pony on which she bad covered a dis tance of twenty-eight miles In the last four hours. "I want to see the Benor Davis, she ssld aa the corporal demanded her business. "Oh. that's the game. ehT chuckled the man to himself and winked at tho sentinel through the darkness. "At once. If you pteaae." "It's coming It pretty strong, little one, but It's not for me to interfere, fay, Pete, If we only had a paper to take this up, eh? Prominent officer mashed on a cussed good looking little A nUTTEil OF HEALTH mil sAbsolutcly Pure HAS 110 SUBSTITUTE another wound In his hack and vri'al greaser gnl-rldes out to chin-chin 'n,nrr m,nor cuts. The shack In which Cutting Scraps in Bsattls, nnuif", ih-p. uuring a nM in s shack on the sand spit, near the foot of Utah street, la! night A. Jones was cut and probably fatally Injured. Three men and one women are In Jail, hold In connection with the cutting af fray. The Injured man was cut across the Hlidomcn and disemboweled .There I Free Coach Large Sample Rooms on Ground Floor. BAY VIEW HOTEL E. GLASER, Prop. HonH Cookinj, Comfortable Btdi, Rtuon sbhs RaUi sad Nice Treatment Rooms 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 per Day. Foot of Ninth Street ASTORIA OREGON THE NEW NEHALEM HOUSE or. Fonrtoenth and Exchame Bt. One block baok of Foard 4 Blokes Store. , J. H. AN SO!, Prop., - t Astoria, Ore. Board and Lodtin $1.00 sad up Cleanest Bedi la the City. Fiat Table Board. Kew garniture Throughout. Rales made to steady Theatrical Troupes ASTORIA HOTEL Corner Seventeenth and Dusne Stt. 75 cents a day and up. Meals 20 cents. Board and lodging $4 per week. fDrJCGaWo TCWDEStTOt HOOT TREATUZZfT f . raone zwa nea, upeo isay saajmgfii. The Astoria Restaurant MAN HINC, Proprietor. Fine meals served at all hours. Oysters served in any style. Game in season. IM Bond Street, Cor. vtn. Astoria, Ore. that an sMtraly s-L rJFt I mm la Oris wrny. SISwmS ran Throat lb n f m lata knows tt acctaa r rar MS edits, which hs men ftrtlr la awtum. iwuimi to cam ma, lana. thnat. rSniami tomaeh, Hr, kMnm, U. hat Uattmoalala. Cham nolma. CaU M4 blm. ratlmiia aat ar Um akr wria Sw blanka aoi etreolan. Swrfataaaa, CXUUSDb TATioarau. addiUm 2 Hi IbUr Sa mmuaa taewu These tiny Capsules are supenoi to tsaisam or v-opaiDa.,-; Cubebs or Injections tndfimJ. CURE IN 48 fiOURSPui the same diseases with out Inconvenience. "I WAHT TO BES THI BBKOB DAVIS," SHI SAID. coutless, batless and veatless Jose burst out of the front door of tbe ranch with tbe exclamation: "Who Is it? What la It? I am here to die with tbe senor and bis brave men!" "We won't ask you, Jose, to do any dying for us tonight," grimly replied tbe major as be came forward. "In tbe morning after we are gone you may dig graves for those dead comrades of yours if you want to oblige us." "My comrades, senor? God forbid! I never saw one of them before. I permit- no bad men to hang about my place. The cursed dogs, to come sneak ing upon you In tbe darkness to do murder!" The Mexican tried to throw tbe ring of truth Into bis words, but as he bad a bullet hole In his shirt and could still feel tbe skin smart where the lead had grazed It be did not make much of a success. 'Even when he went over and kicked one of tbe dead men nobody asked to shake hands with blm. The major ate his breakfast In the ranch house and sought to put Jose at his ease, bis one object to get another sight of tbe girl whose warning had prevented a tragedy. For just five sec onds she stood In the half open door and smiled at him, but before be could tbank her she was gone. This was the beginning of the ma jor's "mash," as his regiment chose to call It The officer would have been a boor not to follow It np at leant to tbe point of having grateful speech with tbe girl. Be rode to the ranch on pur pose one day. Jose was fortunately away on a cattle stealing expedition, (nd his wife wss In bed with tbe jump ing toothache. Little did he learn from Peplta, however. Bbe waa a girl of eighteen, handsome and convent edn- with her she rides back to return his cn II lo re roina nee elopement. Every thing here for a first clnaa novel." "With, death la It If you iusult aie further:" said l'eplta aa she drew a dagtter and menaced him. a kitten wiia claws, enr rut up that frog sticker and come along with me." Tho girl was conducted to Major Davis' quarters and remained for half an hour. Then she rode away. Bhe waa hardly outside the gate when a silent ailarm brought the men out of barrarks to fall in. A quarter of an hour later they had manned the de fenses and were waiting for Ited CUhkI and hla OtX) warriors to attack. Wheu tho ruiih was made the famous chief waa beaten far the first time lu tils life, and there were only 485 warriors to escort him back to hla village. Had be come an hour earlier not a man or woman In Fort Ilrady would have caped tbe tomahawk. "It waa the little Mexican gal that gave the reda away," explained soldier to soldier. And the tongue of gossip was silent. In the morning, when the soldiers pushed out here and there to gather up tbe aulky wounded and the silent dead, two of them came m-rons a sight that was not pleasant to see. They covered the figure,- beautiful even In death, In tender hut soldiery fashion and carried her to Major Davis' quarters. Then they withdrew and left those two alone, the tall, fair man in his stern uniform; the tall, si lent woman, with the tteaceful smile frozen on her Hps. The man bcut over mid kissed those Hps for the first time. "For me It was not worth this great sacrifice, dear child. Dut for my men, and their wives and their children, it was well done!" the cuttliiR took place was spattered with blood, and the rlothlnw of thoi who wore there at tho (line wrre also covered with It. C. li Goodrich, a negro, la believed I to have done the cutting-. Ills wife. Kitty uoodrlch. was present, and la thought to lie Impllratod. Al. Ilnlahl and Roheit Johnson, the two thr men arstd. are hM simply as wit nesses, From tat-iiients made at the Willc. station by those who were In ihe room. It appeara that the Jlatit started over a dispute about clothing-. The araummit waa betwren Ihe i-olori-J woman and Jour, floodrirh llifii took a hand. There was a disparate etruals, and Jones waa cut so that he fell to the floor exhausted. OmidHch and the wo man ran out of the slunk, and when they saw Jones' rnnditloil Hulaot called In Johnson, who was passing the shack at the time. Patrolmitii Kef and I'rlerson wrre summoned, and sent the wounded mail lo the Wayside Mission hospital and the two witnesses to the city Jail. Utter the colored woman and her hus band were arrested, More Qsms Oons. New York. lec, I. Jewels valued at 1 10,000 are retried lo have been stolen from the apartments of J, K. Welnsr, a wealthy mervhaiit, in Manhattan sipiare near Keventy Heventh street. The Jewels were left In a secret re- iHisitory white the family was driving and wece not missed for some hours. The appartmenta apparently had been entered by the use of duplicate keys. Startling Kvidenee. Fresh testimony In great quantity Is constantly coming In, declaring Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion Coughs and Colds to be aa- equaled. A receut expression from T. McFarland Bontorvllle, Va, serves as example. He writes: "I had Uronchltla for three years and doct- lored all the time without being bene fitted. Then I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and a few bot tles wholy cured me." Equally effec tive In curing all Lung and Throat troubles, Consumption, Pneumonia and Grip. Quarantined by Chaa. Rogers Druggist. Trial bottles free, regslar lies 50c, and 11.00. The TROY Laundry Is the only White I.ubor laundry in the City. Dors the Hest of Work at very rvnaonable Prices, and is in every way worthy of your patronage. Cor. 10th and DUANE STS. I'hono 1991 rixnxmgixniiixiiiriitixcrTxxxxxxxijaixxuixixriTi La Foalalaa's Oplaloa of Himself, "I.a Fontaine," sold one of tbe most brilliant critics and wits of tbe famous fable writer's time, "Is such a fool that be does not know be lias more genius than iEsop or Pbaedrua" In truth, be was a severe critic of bis own work. He attended the first pres entation of bis "Astree" and sat near some ladles who did not know blm. At some of the Important passages be exclaimed: 'That is wretched! That Is absurd!" When they protested that It waa good and that It was by tbe great La Fontaine, bo rejoined: "That makes no difference. The piece Is bad. I know that La Fontaine you are speaking of. lie's a stupid fel low. ne's myself." , Then he went out, entered a cafe and went to sleep in a corner. Somo of his friends found blm there and inquired why be wasn't listening to "Astree." , "Ob," said the author, rousing him self and stifling a yawn, "I Just came away. The first part displeases me greatly. No one agreed with wbat I said about It, but I didn't care to bear more. I admire tbe patience of tbe Parisians." The Cer Wlios. "I think," declared the little daugh ter of the widow to tbe millionaire who was calling, "that you are a charming and delightful man." "How nice! Wbat makes you say so?" "Mamma told me to." Detroit Free Press. Faith. Speaking of a man who fell In love with his mother-ln-law and finally eloped with her, Hrother Dickey said, "Well, sub, dat man had de faith dat would advertise fer a lost nmhreller!" Atlanta Constitution. Some people are not better than oth ers, but tbey are more cautions. Atch ison Globe. FRESH AND CURED MEATS Wholesale and Retail Shi, Logging Camps and Mills supplied, on short notice. LIVE STOCK BOUGHT AND SOLD WASHINGTON MARKET . 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I was surprlaad and plaud that before I had assd the battle X really fall betu-r, no I ki-pt on unlnjrlu Eight sick day la sis month. Tsaissaaa, St. Asaaawl' it wan. Mrs. Finne iran had little hone of relief because she knew that i time she had those spells of menstrual suffering with attendaaC bearing down pains sbs was weaker. And every month the pain was growing more serrre. But Mrs. Finnrgan was cured by Wins of Cardui, Sbs is new so well that there are few women who would not be glad to have the haaJta be has. And any woman who has those dreaded bearing down pais can have tbe same relief. Tnu can be free from menstrual irregularities If you take this vegetable wine. Why don't you take it when you see what It has (or others ? Secure a Dottle oi Wins ei Cardui today. Tour druggist bat 11.00 bottles.